An
internal government document reveals tactics of “economic warfare”
and “financial weapons” the US is using against Venezuela in the
name of “furthering capitalism.”
by
Ben Norton
Part
3 - Targeting Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA
The goal
of these latest US sanctions is clear: Steve Mnuchin, Trump’s
treasury secretary and the former chief information officer of
Goldman Sachs, indicated that Venezuela’s US-backed coup leader
Juan Guaidó will use PDVSA and Venezuela’s US-based oil assets to
bankroll his unelected parallel government.
OFAC,
which ARSOF noted “has a long history of conducting economic
warfare,” was careful to point out while it was sanctioning
PDVSA that this state oil company is “a primary source of
Venezuela’s income and foreign currency.”
As The
Grayzone has reported, Guaidó immediately targeted PDVSA within
hours of having declared himself “interim president” (with the
Trump administration’s blessing). Guaidó and the US-backed
right-wing opposition hope to restructure PDVSA and move toward
privatization, rewriting Venezuela’s hydrocarbons laws and handing
out contracts to allow multinational corporations access to the
largest oil reserves on the planet. And Guaidó has sought financial
assistance from the IMF, which ARSOF identified as a US ally in its
economic warfare strategy.
The
ARSOF Unconventional Warfare manual makes it clear that these
policies are not just a peaceful pressure campaign; they are part of
an explicit strategy of “unconventional warfare” aimed at
Venezuela.
These
words, straight from the mouth of the US government, confirm that
sanctions and other punitive economic policies are not a mere prelude
to war; they are a form of war.
The
United States is not “considering” a war against Venezuela; the
superpower has already been waging a war, for years, on this
independent South American nation.
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